Job opening: General Engineer
Salary: $120 849 - 183 500 per year
Published at: Jul 11 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: Serve as a General Engineer exercising managerial authority for systems or technical engineering and logistical developments in all phases of System programs that have broad impact within Department Of Defense (DoD), Department of Army (DA), and PEO/PM.
This is a pay banded position. The NH-04 band encompasses grades 14 and 15 under the General Schedule (GS) system.
Duties
Organize the technical efforts involving several branches of professional engineering work.
Apply knowledge of the principles of engineering fundamentals involving a combination of professional engineering work such as: physical and engineering sciences, mathematics, computer hardware/software integration, etc.
Make plans that impact the organizations long range goals, objectives, and direction and require an analytical approach in order to forecast future trends and outcomes.
Oversee and guides the work of subordinates or other personnel by means of periodic reviews, briefings, reports, or observations.
Coordinate and integrate the work of other units, each of which may involve distinct areas of responsibility and require different skills, knowledge, and abilities to perform the work.
Identify area where corrective action is needed and provides assistance and advice to personnel where problems exist or are developing.
Serve as the primary contact with the sponsors of various programs under their management responsibility and provides information and advice to higher level managers when the work of the unit impacts other groups.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Selectee must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- This position requires submission of the Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, upon entering the position and annually thereafter.
- This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Engineering and Technical Management certification within 60 months as of entrance on duty.
- This is a Critical Acquisition Position (CAP). This position requires the selectee to sign a written tenure agreement to remain in the Federal service in this position for at least three (3) years.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Educational Requirement for Engineering (0800 Series):
Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts).
OR
Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
In addition to meeting the basic education requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the specialized experience requirements listed below:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience at the next lower grade NH-03/GS-13 or equivalency which includes: (1) Directing assigned programs that involves work in areas of considerable engineering difficulty and complexity; (2) Providing guidance for all engineer related activities (i.e. design, development, systems integration); and (3) Executing multiple mission focused acquisition programs.
All Current Federal Employees MUST attach a current SF-50 for consideration. Without a SF-50, your application WILL NOT be considered.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
General EngineeringLeadershipOrganizational AwarenessProduct EvaluationTechnical Competence
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Contacts
- Address AD-APF-W6DQAA PEO AVIATION REDSTONE ARSENAL
DO NOT MAIL
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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